skate journal: dog park saturday with carleigh, jake, dave, kevin, bernie (june 13, 2020)
On a hot day I was late to dog park. Jake, Bernie and Kevin were already there. After some chatting we played a couple game of SKATE. I hadn’t even done an ollie yet so that was a tough start. Kevin did his nollie flips/switch flips and that game was over quick. Next game was no repeats. I don’t remember many of the tricks, but know that I got out on a Jake 3 flip. Carleigh and Dave had shown by then. Dave was hitting the weird U pipe thing. Ollie up then feeble to fakie. Carleigh was tending to Ella for awhile then got in on some boardslides and front 50s. Then her cousin showed and she mostly skated flat after that and helped her ollie. I saw Carleigh get varial flip and halfcab flip. Then we mostly skated the ledges. At times the park was totally awesome with such a great positive vibe. Maybe it was just hearing Bernie’s laugh making everyone happy. Kevin and Bernie were feeding off each other trying lines with kick back tails. Jake and I were less tech. I beat Jake to ollie the little metal ledge then crooks the tall ledge. Jake got front 180 the metal ledge then halfcab noseslide the tall ledge first try. It took me quite a few tries. Kevin was rattling off tricks. I got into a rut of trying a line of switch noseslide 270 the new black box then front 50 kickflip out the low step. I would get close, but never rode away from the flip out. Dave was ripping. Halfcab noseslide 270 out (over 50 makes!), feebles the flat bar, nose manuals when it was raining, switch crook, crooks fakie and a bunch of nosegrinds. He hyped me to try halfcab noseslide 270 shove and there were a few that felt super close and possible. That hyped me up. I also got a sketchy f/s halfcab heel, but couldn’t get a treflip to make the day complete. Kevin almost got switch 5-0 shove. Bernie did a first try front 270 tail 270 out. Fun day, that park is the best even when some weird crew shows up with more filmers than skaters.
(setup 8.25 null curby, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows, 53mm blank purple swirl wheels, new balance numeric 306 foy blue size 12, nike sb zoom insoles)
(pain level 3/10)